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An archaic bronze ‘leaf’ short sword An archaic bronze sword

Eastern Zhou dynasty Early Eastern Zhou dyansty, Qin culture

With a thick central raised rib along the double-waisted blade in the With wavy decoration along the groove at the blade face, decorated
form of a leaf, the guard cast in the form of a taotie ending with a bird’s
with archaistic scrolls with inlaid turquoise ending in a pommel with two
head pommel, the hilt decorated with archaistic scrolls. interlocking coiled chi dragons.
33cm long. 35.9cm long.
HK$80,000 - 140,000 HK$80,000 - 120,000
US$10,000 - 18,000 US$10,000 - 15,000

東周 獸首紋曲刃劍 東周 秦國文化 青銅鑲嵌短劍

See also an excavated example unearthed at the old city of Huailai
district, Hebei provence, in 1955, in the Cultural Relics Institute, Hebei
province, illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji 9. Eastern Zhou 3,
Beijing, 1997, p.140, no.138.

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